[Shawn Swetsky]

I see what you are saying Richard. But it sounds like you have bins that have AMA linked clips always stored. That would be the perfurd way of course.

[Shawn Swetsky]

I see what you are saying Richard. But it sounds like you have bins that have AMA linked clips always stored. That would be the perferd way of course.

[Shawn Swetsky]

Hi Bouke,

I’ve brought the footage in from a Avid Unity workspace. I get a batch of footage and put it on the Unity so I can then have a night person get it in using all the machines we have. Otherwise a hard drive hooked to one machine would take forever to get 100 hours of footage per episode. Then after it’s all in I delete the raw footage from the Avid Unity and have it also stored on a large hard drive. So I brought in from Unity and will have to then relink back to the same raw footage but on an external hard drive. Of course there is footage with the same names though. I wouldn’t mind having to go clip by clip to relink and show the path if it would work. But right now it won’t even let me do that. I sometimes get the relink to AMA option and sometimes don’t. The regular relink method isn’t doing anything on relinking it.

I’ll look into the Offloader program. It works a lot better relinking AMA to MXF then MOVs. But I’ve been reading stuff about the color and quality maybe not being as good in the converting process. Not really sure as I didn’t read into detail. If I have to then I will make new master clips (the MXF files) but would like to avoid that if I can because that will eat up a lot more space.

Thanks

[Shawn Swetsky]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the lengthy response. I appreciate the time. My whole show is files based footage. 5D, 7D, XDCAM, CanonXF C300, RED, etc. The only ones I can’t reconnect back to is the Canon DSLR footage (quicktimes). I have been trying the AMA Relink and it’s usually not an available option. I’ll try just “relink” with what you mentioned. I think for this new batch of 7D I’ll use the QTChange program.

Thanks,
Shawn

[Shawn Swetsky]

Well a consolidate only moves the footage that I’m aware of and does not transcode to a different resolution. It may make it to an MXF file but it won’t make it any smaller and then I’ll have a second master file for all those clips. I have a lot of footage overall and that’s why I’m trying to make small files to edit with. I have well over 1000 hours of footage total so I need offline workflow files to edit with.

[Shawn Swetsky]

Well my whole point to transcode is to work with a lower resolution clip and a lot smaller of a file size. I have over 1000 hours of footage for this project and can’t keep hirez files of everything on a Unity or that would take forever and cost way too much. With other formats like XDCAM it allows you to transcode down, edit and then link back. I’m hopping Canon DSLR footage can do the same thing.

[Shawn Swetsky]

No one knows?